Macau

KOLKATA: The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) in India today held a roadshow here to serve as a promotional platform for travel and trade partners and to create awareness about the tourist destinations in the former Portuguese colony. The roadshow giving an overview of the booming tourism industry in Macau brought together leading travel and tour operators of Kolkata to interact with MGTO representatives in B2B sessions. This year, besides promoting its heritage sites and...

NEW DELHI: The Government will roll out e-Tourist visa (e-TV) facility to Chinese nationals as well as those from Hong Kong and Macau from tomorrow, which would take the total number of countries availing this facility to 77. The Government had launched e-TV facility last November. It is expected that extending this facility to Chinese, Hong Kong and Macau nationals would boost the tourist arrival from these regions and strengthen bilateral ties ...

SINGAPORE: An Indian-Israeli chef plans to open two new outlets in Singapore and Macau next month, aimed at popularising halal vegetarian Middle Eastern dishes with a twist of Mediterranean touch. "We will be opening one outlet each in Singapore and Macau in the second week of July to serve our range of halal vegetarian Middle Eastern dishes with a twist of Mediterranean touch ," chef and restaurateur Reena Pushkarna told PTI. The Pushkarna family has 1-1/2...

HONG KONG: Las Vegas Sands' billionaire chairman Sheldon Adelson opened the world's biggest casino in Macau and unveiled ambitions to expand in India and Japan as Asian gambling booms. The new 3,000 room Venetian Macao resort aims to tap China's 1.3 billion people, and Adelson said he's also keen on opening in the world's second-most populous nation. "We are very much interested in, one, attracting Indians to come to Macau, and two, establishing in India, when the...

SINGAPORE: Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology will begin investor roadshows tomorrow ahead of a proposed issue of US dollar-denominated credit-enhanced Green bonds. This would be the first green bond issue from a Chinese issuer, following similar offerings in India, Taiwan, Australia and South Korea. An earlier filing said that the issue would be up to $300 million in size, with a tenor of up to three years. Bank of China, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale are joint lead...

By Smitabalram Kumar BENGALURU: Sorry boys, Bengaluru's women would rather travel with, well...women. What seemed like travel get-togethers among women friends on social media is now an acknowledged trend. And, it is called girlfriend getaways. Young entrepreneur Minal Patil took a ten-day road trip in Spain with three of her girlfriends this summer. "It was my first time and was liberating. You feel little fear and stay cautious. So, if three...

MACAU: An auction of some 100 items of Michael Jackson memorabilia has fetched more than $1 million, with a basketball autographed by the late singer and Michael Jordan netting $245,000. Showing the lingering appeal of the "King of Pop", the sale in the southern Chinese city of Macau yesterday drew bidders from around the world. An unidentified Internet bidder paid $180,000 for a black crystal-studded glove and an arm brace Jackson wore...

HONG KONG: US gaming giant Las Vegas Sands will boost its investment in Macau's Cotai Strip casino resorts by 25% to $10bn. Sheldon Adelson, the company's chairman and chief executive, said the group will spend $2bn to build an additional 6,000 hotel rooms in Cotai, the burgeoning new gambling centre in the former Portuguese enclave. "We'll have 19,000 or 20,000 rooms by the end of '08 or early '09," Mr Adelson said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong, one of Asia's hottest destinations, hopes to welcome more than 30 million visitors in 2008 as mainland Chinese throng the city's shops and restaurants despite global stock market turmoil. The tiny city of 7 million has as many visitors a year as Japan, Thailand and Singapore combined but is fending off a resurgent Macau. It estimates it would take in a record 30.43 million visitors this year, more than half of those from China. Tourists were...

NEW DELHI: The 2013 edition of International Indian Film Academy awards (IIFA) will celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema as the three-day Bollywood extravaganza returns to Macau after 2009. Announcing the destination, Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan said he will be performing at the ceremony, which kickstars from July 4 this year. Abhishek's presence indicates that Bachchan family has mended its differences with the organisers. Bachchans were regular...

BEIJING: After G-20 's decision to crack down upon tax havens. Chinese leaders are worried that Hong Kong and Macau will be included among the list of tax havens. At stake is Hong Kong's position as a safe place for parking funds by the world's rich individuals and corporations. G-20 has asked OECD to report back on tax haven cooperation by November when finance ministers of these countries meet in Scotland. China on Friday said that Hong Kong and Macau, both...

MACAU: Macau is expecting over 4.8 per cent growth in tourist arrivals from India this year, betting big on its unique blend of museums, cuisines, shopping malls and casinos to lure a record number of Indians to the 'Las Vegas of the East'. "In 2014, the visitor arrivals from India to Macau were 1,67,000. Macau has been witnessing a 4.8 per cent growth year-on-year. We expect it to do much better this year," Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Head of India Representative ...

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India extended curbs on real-estate transactions in India by Chinese people to residents of Hong Kong and Macau as well, since it believes some Chinese citizens may have been using independent enclaves to buy properties in this country. In a notification, the RBI said residents of Hong Kong and Macau cannot buy or sell properties in India without prior approval of the banking regulator. Currently, no citizen of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri...

BEIJING: A group of Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists today made a vain bid to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping to highlight their demand for free election when he arrived in Macau, a former Portuguese colony. The activists were turned back by Macau authorities when they arrived in the gambling hub in an attempt to put their case for universal suffrage before Xi, who reached the city on a two-day visit to attend the 15th anniversary of...

MACAU: Two-time World Championship bronze medallist PV Sindhu lifted her first title of the season by successfully defending the $120,000 Macau Grand Prix Gold trophy after seeing off Kim Hyo Min of Korea in the women's singles finals, here today. World No. 11 Sindhu prevailed over 91st-ranked, Kim 21-12 21-17 in the summit clash that lasted 45 minutes at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion here. The bronze-medallist at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, Sindhu faced tough...

MACAU: PV Sindhu continued to take giant strides towards asserting herself as the rising star of Indian badminton by lifting the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold title with a thumping win over Canada's Michelle Li in the summit clash, here today. The top-seeded 18-year-old won the match 21-15 21-12 in merely 37 minutes to clinch her second Grand Prix Gold title after the Malaysia Open in May. The Indian sensation, who was bestowed the Arjuna award ...

MUMBAI: Establishments from Hong Kong and Macau will require prior approval of the Reserve Bank to set up business or related activities in India. It is clarified that the provisions of the Regulation apply for entities from Hong Kong and Macau also, the Reserve Bank said in a notification today. "Accordingly, applications from entities registered in/ resident of Hong Kong and Macau, for establishment of Liaison/ Branch/Project Offices or any other place of...

NEW DELHI: Miihier Singh, who won the Mr India title this year, will represent the country in the 48th Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championship to be held in Macau, China from August 26 to September 1. More than 350 athletes are expected to participate in the championship. The top five finishers will get a chance to participate in World Bodybuilding and Physique Championship to be held on November 23 at Balewadi Stadium in Pune. "I'm really...

The Independent On Saturday night in Las Vegas the tiny fighting darling of the Philippines, Manny Pacquiao, will enter the ring to fight Tim Bradley in a rematch of their strange first encounter. Both men have talked about a desperate need for redemption. In 2012, Pacquiao claims he took pity on Bradley and let him survive several rounds longer than expected and actually allowed the unbeaten American to last until the final bell, in a fight that divided opinion on the night and still...